Vagabonds by Hamsun, Knut - 1930

Coward-McCann. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Norway, country life, industrialization, fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paris : Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1998. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º(190x122). 1 volume de 498-[4] pp. O autor recebeu o Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1920. Assinatura de posse.

Grasset & Fasquelle, 1986. Paperback. New. 504 pages. French language. 7.24x4.80x1.02 inches.

Coward-McCann. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Front hinge cracked. (literature, novel)

Cassell and Company Ltd , 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft. Name of the previous owner. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 549 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards have light edge wear. Internally there are minor marks on some of the pages, the text remains legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1932.. Originally published in 1927 under the title 'Landstrykere' (Wayfarers), the first novel in the 'August' trilogy. This is the 3s and 6d edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft. Pp.549, occasional light spotting, toning to free endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper browned to spine with 1tears and losses to top front edge and top and tail of spine. Scarce. G+/Fair.** Knut Hamsun " pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway....Hamsun had strong anti-English views, and openly supported Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. Due to his professed support for the German occupation of Norway, he was charged with treason after the war. He was not convicted, due to what was deemed psychological problems and issues with old age". (wiki).

Coward McCann, 1930. Book. Very Good Pages Browning. Hardcover. 1st Edition. An attractive copy with some overall browning to the boards and pages, endpapers are somewhat foxed. Dust jacket is fragile, missing several small edge pieces, somewhat darkened and rubbed and is splitting at the front fold near the spine. Still quite uncommon in dust jacket. .

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1931. Vagabonds' first chapter is "a masterpiece" in evoking the loss of innocence and the perils of modernity (Ferguson, 290). It also introduces the trilogy's protagonist, August, one of Hamsun's most enduring figures. "What makes Hamsun more than just a good storyteller and a superb stylist are his insights into the 'almost imperceptible movements of the soul' and his sense of the mystery of life" (Wintle, New Makers). Yet controversy continues over Hamsun's role in the Nazi occupation of Norway and his meetings with Hitler and Goebbels. To his biographer, "what can be safely said of him is that he was a great writer, and his contribution to the art of writing has been enormous" (Ferguson, 422). First edition, first issue: copyright page with no statement of edition or printings; copies found with colophon or without colophon (this copy), no priority established. Copyright date of "Oct. 29, 1930" (Catalogue of Copyright Entries.… Read More